Capture the Flag & Craft Day

Capture The Flag

On July 3rd, we played an epic game of Team Capture the Flag! We gave everyone mini flags with their team name. (we had intentions to make them all USA flags, for the holiday, but didn't have enough. So we used all different countries and just pretended they represented USA :) ) Our employees went crazy over this game! You don't realize how competitive we all are until you give us a game of Capture the Flag! People were running all over the place, stealing flags, getting tagged, and being chased. It was a blast! The IT team was holding quite a few flags hostage up until the end of the game. But our Yellow #3 team ended up winning the game with 6 flags! It was a close game!

Craft Day

Our Craft day was last week. We made desk name tags! People move around so much here, and since most of us are tied on phones most of the day, it's hard to get to know everyone. So with these name tags, it will be easier for people to know who is who! Check out a few of the cute ones our employees created :)

July Culture Calendar

July 2nd: Team Capture The Flag
July 9th: Craft Day - Desk Name tags
July 16-17th: Office Olympics
July 20th: Cake Day - Ice Cream Sandwiches
July 22nd: Davinci Annual BBQ
July 24th: Pajama Day and Movie Day
July 31st: Team Family Feud

Willy Wonka Chocolate Factory - July 1st

This is definitely a favorite activity that we have done in the past. During the month of June, our employees earned Chocolate Bars for going above and beyond. 5 of them had GOLDEN TICKETS. 5 lucky employees who won those tickets got to go through the Davinci Chocolate Factory! We decked out our small conference room with candy and chocolate, and gave it a real "Wonka" feel. Once the lucky 5 had enough sugar to last them the rest of the week, we took them around the "factory." There were 5 different rooms along the way, with a different challenge. In each room, once "child" was eliminated. In the end, there was ONE lucky winner that won the Chocolate Fountain!

 Our 5 lucky winners!

Challenge One:
Each person had a pie tin full of chocolatey whipped cream with an M&M hidden at the bottom. Using only their face, they had to find the M&M. Jenn was the last to find hers, so she was eliminated!

Things got pretty messy!

Challenge Two:

Each player had a bucket with 5 blue water balloons, or "blueberries." the last person to pop their blueberries was eliminated. Mary just BARELY lost.

 Challenge Three:
I don't have pictures of this one (sorry!) But we spray painted 20 golden eggs. In each one there was a paper that said good egg, and in one of them, there was a bad egg. The players rolled a 1-3 die and that's how many eggs they had to take from the pile. Once all the eggs were claimed, they opened theirs. Jordan had the bad egg, so she was eliminated!

Challenge Four:
Each player, while wearing giant Wonka glasses, had to tear open their giant candy bar and break it into the designated pieces. Broken pieces did not count.

Julia had a rough start, since she couldn't even get the Wonka wrapper off :) needless to say, Jeff walked away our Chocolate Champion!

Davinci Launch Party Week - June 15th-19th

WOW I am way behind on posting. I apologize! It's been crazy lately. I was out for Jury duty during our BUSIEST week (poor Katie!) But we had a TON of fun things going on! Davinci just launched their brand new website (go take a look! --> www.davincivirtual.com ) and we got a whole new branding look for the company. New colors, new logos, new pictures, new traits, new look,  new new new :) We are constantly growing and improving. It's awesome!

One of the new changes involves 5 new traits that our employees strive to live by each and every day. These traits (also known as our branding words) are ALIVE, BOLD, COMPASSIONATE, DRIVEN, and FRESH. We want everyone we interact with throughout the day to see that we are all of these things. We stay alive when talking to our clients or customers. We are bold when it comes to closing the sale, explaining our products, and learning new ways to improve our work. We are compassionate to everyone, especially with those not-so-happy callers :) We are driven to succeed and do better. We keep things fresh, constantly thinking of new ways to make our company the best!

During our Launch Party Week, each day had a trait as the theme.

Monday - ALIVE

 We started out the week with an ALIVE breakfast (bagels, yum!).

 Then our employees took the Davinci Pledge. They pledged to live by the traits every day, then signed with their hand print to make it official! :)

Our employees got in the spirit, and wore ALIVE blue! 

Tuesday - COMPASSIONATE

 Our employees got to take a personality quiz to see which trait they are most like. Then they got a bracelet with the color of that trait. We also had some compassionate "challenges" they could do throughout the day that involved helping out their teammate, being nice to a stranger, etc. 
They also decked out in Compassionate yellow :)

Wednesday - FRESH

We had a fun mixer party to stay fresh! We made delicious mocktails, and played personality pong!

Thursday - Bold and Driven

 We had a fun DRIVEN relay race challenge, and a BOLD daring challenge. For the Driven relay, there were 5 stops around the office that they had to use the office scooter to go to each one and complete the small task. The Driven challenge was a one on one game. Each person had to do a task quickly, and the person to do it the slowest got sprayed in the face with water :)

Friday - Alive, Bold, Compassionate, Driven, & Fresh

We had cake to celebrate the last day of Launch week. We also had a desk decorating competition (everyone here LOVES those kind of competitions). We had a personality photo booth too, pictures to come. And a yummy potluck!

Employee Recognition Program

We also started a new program to recognize when our employees live by the traits. Anyone can nominate someone when they see them really practicing one (or all) of the traits. Once someone gets 10 nominations for one trait, they get a pin! Once they get all 5 pins, they become part of the Davinci Elite. We have such amazing employees, and everyone deserves to get recognized for their hard work :)

We also had a T shirt design competition. This is how the winning design turned out :)

With this on the back 

We are excited to see what is next for Davinci! We love our new look, and our new traits. We are always coming up with new ideas. Our culture book will be out soon, so I'll try to post that once it's ready. We also have Davinci Swag coming soon too. Stay tuned!